Dear LPG

I suppose as pensioners go I am still a relatively young one at 64 years old, but I have noticed something that others of my age that I know have remarked on too.  Have any of the other LPG readers out there observed how much more quickly the days seem to disappear on you  as you get older.

Is it because we don’t have to live within the confines of having to be at work at a certain time

Is it because we sleep more or can please ourselves  a little more when it comes to the times that we choose to do the things that are part of our daily routine.  I am talking about the tasks we do every day like getting dressed in the mornings?  I have to admit that I now have breakfast while watching the ‘morning after’ rerun of my favourite television soap opera. 

To me it does not take any longer to do these things and, even though I do things like iron and wash up just as efficiently as I used to, when I get to the end of the day I like to think that I can look back with a sense of achievement .  I supposed I do spend more time on the phone calls with friends of my age and situation, because there is less need to hurry and outings to the shops being  tasks that I have to get done before a particular time so that I can fit something else into the day.

I do find that some aspects of life do take a bit longer.  Making appointments to see doctors and dentists, paying bills on line or buying something over the internet and I have to admit to taking full advantage of the fact that there is no hurry when I go shopping for something special these days.  There are times when I am a little less confident of things that I have done, especially on line or to do with DIY, and  to be sure I will wait for a grandchild to visit and check for me, which can be time consuming inasmuch that the task cannot be completely ticked off my to do list . 

But the question still needs to be answered; “Even though the days pass at normal speed, why do the months and years seem to go so quickly?   

ID, Bellingham.

LPG has no answers although perhaps it has something to do with that saying about it flying when you are having fun.  When one first retires and suddenly finds themselves with all that free extra time on the hands, perhaps it is a time when we are young enough to do some of the things that there was no time to do while we were working, and therefore we find ourselves in a position to have more fun than we have for all those years when work dictated what we could and could not find the time to do.  LPG did found a little information…

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